The former sheriff of Chattooga County has sidestepped a civil rights trial that was scheduled to begin Jan. 14 after his insurance company paid $300,000 to settle a case stemming from a fraudulent warrant.
Attorneys representing Association of County Commissioners of Georgia’s insurance plan, which is also the sheriff’s insurer, agreed to settle the case earlier this month after a federal judge in Rome and a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit determined that a 2011 search of the home of a Trion pawn shop owner by former Sheriff John Everett and his investigators was based on a fraudulent warrant that violated the pawn shop owner’s civil rights.
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